Prevent the Summer Slide: Fun High-Frequency Word Activities for K–5 Readers

🧠 Prevent the Summer Slide with Fun, Effective High-Frequency Word Activities! 🌞 | Structured Literacy Strategies for K–5

Looking for quick, engaging ways to help students maintain reading fluency and confidence over the summer? In this video, we’re sharing teacher-approved activities to review high-frequency words and Heart Words—so your students don’t lose momentum during those crucial summer months.

Whether you teach kindergarten or upper elementary, these routines are fast, fun, and grounded in the Science of Reading. You’ll learn how to bring movement, games, word mapping, and sentence writing into your high-frequency word instruction—perfect for preventing the summer slide in reading!

In this video, you’ll discover:
✔️ What Heart Words are and how to teach them
✔️ Hands-on review games like hopscotch, ping pong toss, and Irregular Word Bump
✔️ Word sorting activities for decodable vs. irregular words
✔️ Strategies for building word meaning and sentence fluency
✔️ How to make review routines fun and consistent over the summer

These structured literacy routines can be used during summer school, take-home packets, tutoring, or end-of-year classroom prep—designed to keep students reading-ready all year long!

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